Despotic Synonyms

despätik
Without limit in authority
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. oppressive
Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. autocratic
  2. authoritarian
  3. tyrannical
  4. dictatorial
  5. despotical
  6. tyrannic
  7. totalitarian
  8. absolute
  9. arbitrary
  10. dominant
  11. oppressive

Words Related to Despotic

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Despotic Sentence Examples

  • Men thought him more cruel and more despotic than he actually was.

  • In other cases a more despotic monarchy has grown up - the prowess of one man leading to the subjugation of other clans.

  • The Internet is still able to be "turned off" by despotic rulers.

  • The Prussian people were keenly irritated by the cordial relations between their court and the most despotic power in Europe.

  • The new king was a man of excellent intentions and did his Louis Bonaparte best to promote the interest of his subjects, but finding King of himself unable to protect them from the despotic Holland.

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